Job Description

The Operations Orchestration product team (OOPT) focuses on building and sustaining digital products for shopfloor operations management. This product team encompasses two key capabilities: Finite Scheduling and Manufacturing Productivity. These capabilities are essential for the optimized operation of the shop floor and provide enhanced visibility of the status of the production process. Operations Orchestration operates within the Manufacturing Value Team (MVT) of Digital our Manufacturing Division.

Our product team is expanding rapidly to meet increasing demand for Manufacturing Productivity capabilities across the worldwide our Manufacturing Division network. As such, we are recruiting for a Senior Business Analyst/Engineer who will be responsible for developing and maintaining configurations for the capabilities within the Operations Orchestration product, with special focus on Manufacturing Productivity (OEE/OA/OR/Batch Tracking/Downtime Tracking).

The Senior Business Analyst/Engineer will participate on new deployments as well as provide ongoing operational support at existing our Manufacturing Division sites. Duties will include system (Seeq) configuration, testing, and documentation, along with responding to support and enhancement requests from site users.

Responsibilities:

- Configure the manufacturing productivity system (Seeq based) for Drug Substance, Drug Product and Packaging operations.

- Update and modify existing manufacturing site configurations as per business needs

- Provide support for the Manufacturing Productivity system and Seeq platform for our site users. This includes troubleshooting, escalating, and resolving issues reported by the users at the different sites

- Assist technical OOPT members with data analysis for manufacturing system integrations and the debugging/testing of data interfaces using SQL.

- Map operations process data parameters to source system data parameters (e.g. MES MBRs, PI event frames, SAP, etc.)

- Manage technical and business dependencies and bottlenecks; balance technical constraints with business requirements; and deliver maximum business impact with solid customer experience

- Enable effective implementation, utilization, and adoption of the Operation Orchestration applications at the different sites

- Defining and managing critical content for training and communication for product users
- Enable effective implementation, utilization, and adoption of the Operation Orchestration applications at the different sites

Required Education and Experience:

- B.S. in Engineering or equivalent technical field with 5+ years of relevant experience

- Demonstrated experience with advanced industrial analytics

- Advanced knowledge of probability and statistics

- Strong ability to translate business needs to technical requirements, and to communicate digital concepts to non-technical personnel

- Strong interpersonal skills with a demonstrated ability to negotiate with key stakeholder groups and drive/influence results in a dynamic environment.

- Strong analytical problem-solving skills and ability to independently develop innovative solutions for complex problems.

- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively with a globally distributed team

- Practice in Agile Methodology and Continuous Improvement and with a Digital & Innovative mindset

- Expertise in authoring and executing technical documentation following industry standards and methodologies (SDLC, AGILE)

- Excellent communication and problem-solving skills with a sense of ownership, enthusiasm, and innovation

Preferred Experience and Skills:

- Manufacturing expertise, preferably in the pharmaceutical industry

- Seeq expertise, including Seeq Workbench, Seeq Organizer, Seeq Data Lab & Seeq Vantage

- Experience with BI tools (i.e. Microsoft Power BI, Spotfire)

- Knowledge of manufacturing systems such as MES, Pi, etc.

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